<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Apologies for cross-posting<br><br>A meeting will be held on April 4, 2008 at the University of<br>Southampton, in conjunction with Open Repositories 2008, to roll-out the<br>beta release of the OAI-ORE specifications. This meeting is the<br>European follow-on to a meeting that will be held in the USA on March 3,<br>2008 at Johns Hopkins University.<br><br>The OAI-ORE specifications describe a data model to identify and<br>describe aggregations of web resources, and they introduce<br>machine-readable formats to describe these aggregations based on ATOM<br>and RDF/XML. The current, alpha version of the OAI-ORE specifications is at <a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/0.1/">http://www.openarchives.org/ore/0.1/</a> .<br><br>Additional details for the OAI-ORE European Open Meeting are available at:<br><br>- The full press release for this event:<br><br><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/documents/EUKickoffPressrelease.pdf">http://www.openarchives.org/ore/documents/EUKickoffPressrelease.pdf</a><br><br>- The registration site for the event:<br><br><a href="http://regonline.com/eu-oai-ore">http://regonline.com/eu-oai-ore</a><br><br>Note that registration is required and space is limited.<br><br><br>Carl Lagoze and Herbert Van de Sompel</body></html>